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Italy agrees budget which increases deficit against EU wishes

The Italian government has agreed a budget which is set to put it on a collision course with Brussels.

The debt-saddling administration in Rome is pressing ahead with a spending plan which is well over the economic deficit limits set by the European Union.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.

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Kremlin dismisses new Skripal evidence, saying 'many people look alike'

President Vladimir Putin's press secretary has said Russia still believes the two men accused of the Salisbury poisoning are civilians. An investigative website said one of the men was actually a highly-decorated officer in the Russian military intelligence services, using an alias. Lucy Taylor reports.

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Seoul: UNC backs inter-Korean military agreement

South Korea says the United Nations Command supports its new military agreement with North Korea. There's been speculation the command believes Seoul and Pyongyang are moving too quickly with efforts to forge peace despite a lack of strong progress toward denuclearization.

Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul

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The South Korean defense ministry said it's holding close talks with the U.N. command about the new military agreement.

The ministry also said a U.N. command official recently expressed support for the deal.

The U.N. Command, or simply UNC, overseas the South Korean side of the truce area in the demilitarized zone where negotiators meet.

The new military deal signed at the latest inter-Korean summit calls for all weapons to be removed from the truce area. It also dictates that some guard posts along the DMZ are shut down on a trial basis.

This week, the nominee to lead the UNC, U.S. General Robert Abrams, said all demilitarized zone -related activities are under the purview of the command.

And questions have been raised whether it's too soon to draw down border security.

Seoul, however, says the agreement is important to maintaining reconciliation with Pyongyang.

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Brussels unveiling Jo Cox Square - Corbyn in Brussels on Brexit

Brussels is unveiling a square which is being named after the murdered British MP Jo Cox.

The leader of the British Labour party Jeremy Corbyn is in Brussels to attend the opening and will also be meeting with the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.

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Foreign Ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey discuss Syria's Idlib

The Foreign Ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey say they have held another meeting to discuss the situation in the Idlib province of Syria. It's their first meeting since the Presidents of Russia and Turkey agreed to avert a major offensive in the region. Lucy Taylor reports.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Indian Supreme Court strikes down adultery law

India's highest court has ruled that adultery is no longer a crime in the country, striking down a law that was over 150-years old.

The law punished any man who has an affair with a woman 'without the consent' of her husband, with five years in jail. There was no punishment for the woman, who is seen as the victim and the property of her husband.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia reports.

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Real identity of one of Salisbury assassins "revealed"

The real identity of one of the Russian assassins wanted in connection with the poisoning of several people in the British city of Salisbury has reportedly been revealed.

The man the British authorities said used the named Ruslan Boshirov is a decorated colonel in Russia's military intelligence according to the investigative journalism organization Bellingcat.

From London, Catherine Drew reports.

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Top US Diplomat Heads to North Korea Next Month

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accepted an invitation to travel to North Korea next month.

Pompeo is working toward a possible second meeting of Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump late this year.

From Washington Daniel Ryntjes reports.

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Indian court upholds country's biometric scheme but with conditions

India's Supreme Court has decided that the Aadhaar -- the country's biometric identity card -- is constitutionally valid.

But the court has included some limits on how people can use it- putting in various safeguards to prevent its misuse.

Aadhaar is the world's biggest biometric scheme- and it records a person's biometric and demographic details.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia reports.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Trump attacks Iran in UN speech

US President Donald Trump has savaged Iran in his United Nations
General Assembly speech saying more sanctions are coming this year.

He also defended the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear
agreement in May.

Nick Harper reports from the UN in New York.

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Beijing Doubts Trade Deal With US "Knife to China's Neck"

A senior Chinese official says the United States is putting "a knife to China's neck" over trade.

President Donald Trump has so far imposed tariffs targeting $250 billion of Chinese goods.

From Washington Daniel Ryntjes reports.

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UK's Labour party grapples with second Brexit referendum

Brexit is taking centre stage at the Labour party conference in Liverpool with the UK's opposition party apparently divided over whether to give the country another say on Britain's departure from the European Union.

Labour's Sir Keir Starmer is addressing the conference where delegates will vote on a motion to keep open the option of another referendum. From London, Catherine Drew reports.

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EU outlines payment plan for Iran to avoid US sanctions

The European Union is outlining a plan which it hopes will salvage the Iran Nuclear deal after the United States withdrew.

The idea is set up a payment system to allow Iranian oil firms and other companies to selling to international partners despite US sanctions.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.

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Monday, September 24, 2018

India begins massive screening operation to save Asiatic lions

In the Indian state of Gujarat, which is home to the endangered Asiatic lion, over sixty teams have been set-up to rescue those animals that may be sick.

This comes after the carcasses of 11 lions, including cubs, were found in the first week of September.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia reports.

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[WRAP] UN remembers Mandela

The United Nations and world leaders are celebrating what would have
been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday with a special summit in New
York.

It's the first major high-level event during this year's UN General
Assembly main week.

Nick Harper reports from the UN in New York.

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UN targets global drugs trade

Over 120 countries have signed up to support global efforts to tackle
the international drugs trade.

At a special, high-level meeting at the United Nations world leaders
discussed the rising problems of trafficking and drugs use.

At the event called the 'Global call to action on the World Drug
Problem' countries also looked at different ways to better engage the
issue and find solutions.

The Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all countries to help.

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Trump: 2nd North Korea summit may happen "soon"

US President Donald Trump says a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may happen "soon".

It follows the historic meeting between the two leaders in Singapore in June.

Speaking to reporters at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Trump said progress had been made on the planned denuclearization.

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Trump arrives at UN for busy week

US President Donald Trump has returned to the United Nations General Assembly for a week in which he's expected to attack Iran and work on denuclearization in North Korea.

Later on Monday he'sll meet the President of South Korea to sign a trade agreement between the two countries.

Nick Harper reports from the UN in New York.

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North, South Koreans celebrate Chuseok as relations improve

In South Korea, families are celebrating their thanksgiving holiday known as Chuseok. Both North and South Koreans observe the holiday, a tradition that traces back long before the division of the Peninsula.

Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.

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A family in South Korea finishes bowing before an altar covered in food in an apartment.

They're honoring their ancestors on Chuseok, the country's most important holiday.

Now, they eat.

This year's Chuseok on Monday comes amid warming ties between North and South Korea.

Koreans on both sides of the border celebrate the holiday, a time when most families visit their hometowns and eat traditional Korean dishes. Some visit ancestors' graves.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at their summit last week he hoped their meeting would a Chuseok gift to all Koreans.

Moon is now in New York for the UN General Assembly. He hopes to encourage another summit between Kim and U.S. president Donald Trump.

While Moon works, most South Koreans are resting until the holiday-break ends on Wednesday.

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Many will sit in hours and hours of traffic -- another hallmark of Chuseok in South Korea as millions travel across the southern half of the Peninsula.

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Bruce Harrison

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Last Mediterranean migrant rescue ship to be deflagged

The last private rescue ship saving migrants in the Mediterranean Sea is being forced to end its operations.

Panama has revoked the registration of the rescue ship Aquarius meaning it will be de-flagged the next time it docks.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.

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Sunday, September 23, 2018

Indian government launches 'world's largest' healthcare scheme

India has launched a new scheme that will provide free healthcare insurance to 500 million people.

Popularly known as 'Modicare', after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the scheme promises poor families a cover of roughly $7000 for secondary and tertiary medical care.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia reports.

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Saturday, September 22, 2018

UN General Assembly Preview: President Trump's return

[EDITORS - Trump speaks before the UN on Tues 25th Sept at about 9:45am EST / 1345GMT]

President Trump returns to the UN General Assembly this week after a year in which his administration has increasingly taken unilateral action, sidelining the UN in the process.

The US administration has angered the UN and other world powers by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, rejecting the Human Rights Council, slashing funding to multiple UN agencies, and pushing a hard-line pro-Israel stance.

But America has made progress with North Korea, albeit without the inclusion of the UN.

So how will the US President approach his return to the very place he's spent the past year disagreeing with?

Nick Harper reports.

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Donald Trump's first visit to the UN was certainly memorable, with a few choice words for North Korea's leader Kim Jong un.

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"Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime."

But since then relations have improved.
Not so, with Iran, who this year will replace North Korea as America's enemy number one.
In May the US pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement - against the wishes of the United Nations.
Here's Senior Fellow of the Center for Policy Research at the United Nations University Richard Gowan.

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"Relations between the Trump Administration and the UN are pretty poor. We've seen Trump pulling back form a number of multilateral agreements, most noticeably the Iran nuclear deal, and also pulling out the Human Rights Council. So the US is disconnecting itself from the UN on many significant issues."

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That disconnecting has also seen the US reduce funding to the main UN budget and successfully campaign to reduce UN peacekeeping numbers.
As the US ambassador Nikki Haley made clear ahead of the General Assembly it's priority this year will be continuing to put America first.

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"We really value sovereignty of the country, we think every country should as well, regardless of who the country is. And so that's a conversation we want to have. It's not saying multilateralism can't work, but it's saying sovereignty is a priority over all of that."

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Another area where the US has overturned UN thinking is in the Middle East.
Running counter to diplomatic tradition the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem.
And cut all funding to the UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Peter Mulrean is the New York Director for the UNRWA agency.

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"Well the situation right now is as bad as probably UNRWA has ever had it in the past. If you start start cutting UNRWA services, in things like education, healthcare and food, it's very hard to see how these people can go on."

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The smiles and handshakes belie the fact that the multilateral spirit of the world body is at odds with the go-it-alone attitude of American protectionist.

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UN watchers expect President Trump's return to the UN to be fiery and tough-talking. He'll have Iran in his sights.
And don't expect a change of heart for the UN itself, following a year in which the US administration has largely sidelined it or purely undermined it.

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Friday, September 21, 2018

UN General Assembly Preview: Migrant & Refugee crisis

For a fifth year in a row global refugee numbers have reached a new record high, with 68.5 million people now displaced by violence or persecution.

The United Nations Refugee Agency says people must leave flee their homes because of persecution, war and violence every 30 minutes.

With crises emerging and ongoing hotspots growing rather than diminishing, the UN is trying to contain a problem that has no easy solution.

As the UN General Assembly gets under next week, Nick Harper in New York looks back at the last year of migration issues.

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Fleeing for their lives, carrying their most precious possessions. Since last August, around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have endured many miles and much misery to escape violence in Myanmar that the UN says could constitute genocide.

SOT- Ninette Kelley, Director of the UN Refugee Agency, New York: "It's a human tragedy of enormous proportions. People came over to Bangladesh in a flood, in a very short period of time. It was one of most rapidly rising situations of forced displacement that we've seen in decades."

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Other new hotspots have flared up in the past year. Fresh fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo forced tens of thousands of people a day to make the precarious crossing of Lake Albert into Uganda - a country already hosting over 1.4 million refugees.

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While the economic and constitutional crisis in Venezuela has pushed people to the country's borders looking for better opportunities abroad.

SOT- Louis Charbonneau, Director, Human Rights Watch: "So much more pressure could be put on the Maduro government to improve but it hasn't happened. Hopefully that will change, hopefully we will see a more proactive effort in both the Human Rights Council and here in New York. But it remains to be seen if that's going to happen."

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But new problems arise without old ones being solved.
And tented cities in South Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq, continue to swell.

SOT-Ninette Kelley, Director of the UN Refugee Agency, New York: "These conflicts are starting to mushroom and not being mitigated enough, and not being solved. So what we're seeing is a global rise in enforced displacement."

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But while the UN is engaged in aid efforts in multiple countries, it's been criticized for not doing enough to engage repressive or complicit governments.

SOT-Prof. Michael John Williams, Director, International Relations, New York University: "Where is the UN in all of these migrant crises around the world? It doesn't seem like the UN is really leading on these issues in these localities, nor is there really talking about this as a global issue."

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And despite anti-migrant rhetoric in some western nations it's not these wealthier countries coming to the aid of the world's displaced. The UN estimates 85% are hosted by poorer, developing countries.
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Just this month, the U.S. reduced the number of refugees it will accept next year to 30,000 from 45,000 in 2018. While Hungary this year has slashed its daily quota of asylum seeker admissions to just two, down from 60 in 2016.
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But at this year's General Assembly the migrant issue will be largely sidelined until the UN's intergovernmental conference in Marrakech in December. Until then, the UN hopes the millions of migrants and refugees will be remembered as more than just statistics.

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Moon's approval rating soars after summit

South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating has soared following his third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. But Moon experienced a similar boost after his first summit, only to see approval dive sharply on domestic issues.

Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.

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According to a poll by Gallup Korea, President Moon Jae-in's approval rating hit 61 percent.

It was hovering just below 50 percent before he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang this week.

Kim promised to shut down parts of his nuclear weapons program at the summit.

Moon has made peace on the Korean Peninsula a priority of his presidency. And this year military tensions have been remarkably low.

Moon also championed himself as a jobs president.

But a series of labor reforms, including a minimum wage hike, have hurt his popularity at home.

So Moon will need more than pledges from Kim to keep the public satisfied.

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Bruce Harrison

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Tusk says Chequers Brexit plan "will not work"

The head of the European Council has said that British Prime Minister Theresa May's blueprint for future relations with the EU after Brexit will not work.

Mrs May addressed a summit of EU leaders in Salzburg Wednesday, calling for them to accept what she called her serious so-called Chequers plan. She also urged them to evolve their position on the tricky Irish border question.

Speaking after the 27 EU leaders had met to discuss Brexit without Theresa May, Donald Tusk said the proposal risked undermining the EU's single market.

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South Korea's Moon says neighbour Kim Jong-un ready for Trump talks

South Korea President Moon Jae-in says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is ready to speed up getting rid of his nuclear weapons and hold a second summit with President Donald Trump.

Moon just spent three days in North Korea meeting with the young leader. But Moon said Kim will only act if the U.S. offers security guarantees for dismantling his weapons program.

Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

UN: Myanmar military must face genocide charges

In a new report United Nations experts are calling for Myanmar's top
military leaders to be prosecuted for the genocide of the country's
Rohingya Muslims.

The findings also criticized the UN's own agencies for not doing
enough to hold Myanmar accountable and stop the human rights abuses.

Nick Harper reports from the UN in New York.

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May flies to Salzburg to sell her Chequers Brexit plan

British Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to the Austrian city of Salzburg for an EU summit that could be key to the Brexit process.

At a working dinner, the British leader will tell her 27 fellow European Union leaders that her so-called Chequers plan for future relations is a pragmatic approach to the tricky issues resulting in the UK's departure from the block.

From London, Catherine Drew reports.

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Moon, Kim announce steps to rid peninsula of nuclear weapons

North Korea has agreed to shut down key facilities related to its nuclear weapons program. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached the agreement at their latest. But the deal also states the U.S. must take steps in order for Kim to follow through.

Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed a declaration on the second day of their summit in Pyongyang.

They agreed North Korea will permanently shut down a missile engine test site and a facility for making nuclear weapons fuel.

President Moon also said Kim would allow international inspectors to verify the closure of those facilities.

But according to the agreement, the U.S. must take reciprocal measures.

Kim has been pushing for the U.S. to ease sanctions and sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War.

But Washington says it first wants more proof Kim is serious about giving up his weapons.

After the summit declaration, U.S. President Donald Trump quickly Tweeted about Kim's plans to shut down the facilities with the oversight of inspectors.

The White House has said it's preparing for a second summit between Kim and Trump.

Kim and Moon also agreed to pursue joint economic projects, including linking their railways by the end of the year. South Korea may be at risk of violating international sanctions if it follow through with joint ventures.

This was Kim and Moon's third meeting this year. And there may be a fourth. Kim said he hopes to visit Seoul in the near future. And Moon said it would likely happen before the end of the year.

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Bruce Harrison

Seoul Correspondent

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